MCI needs Controls in addition to instructional augmentation

As the essence of MCI is dynamic in nature with added complexity of solving ill-sturctured problems, I did concur with Gibbons on the need to build instructional product regulation factors into MCI.

Accordingly, he proposed instructional augmentation (e.g. learning companion) together with control points such as

1) model versioning controls to monitor the dynamic change of models
2) problem scoping controls to bound the problem space
3) problem step size controls to control the complexity of problem
4) Fading of instructional scaffolds to support learner problem skill acquisition.

and further suggested for design layering - decomposing solution of the design problem into sub-problems offers implications for instructional designers to develop content design languages, classify design problem into its structural types, reuse modular design elements. These are indeed new grounds for me!